Food

midieval foodby: tim

Medieval food

This is a picture of chicken and and potatos being cooked together in a pot over a fire
What they ate:

• meats like rabbit, goose,duck,pigions, chicken, pig, cow/cattle,and larks
• They grew grapes, figs, and potatos
• The spices they had were mints, saga, rosemary, and paresly
• they also made lots of pastas

How they cooked there food:

• They cooked in large kettles over the fire
• They baked on stones that were over the fire
• and for pieces of meat they put them on sticks and roast them

Who ate what:

• the serfs or peasants did not have much money so they had barley for every meal every day.
• wealthy nobles could afford good food so they meat, fish, wheat, and they had many spices to make there food better
• people in the middle ages did not have a well balanced diet

What tools they used to cook:

• They used pots and kettles to cook soup
• Just like today they used spoons, forks, and knives
• fire sticks were also very common to make the fire bigger.
• Pot holders or hooks were used to hold the pot over the fire
• they used a flesh hook to cleen fish